Adelaide, at the very least, needs this. A bottle of brandy, a moment to remember that her peers are not put here simply to vex her- their differing points of view are what make their input valid, what makes the council a group that truly speaks for the mages of the Inquisition. The weighty question of Gaspard vs Celene is one best done informally. Moreover- with Ruby in the dungeons slowly sweating out whatever had been done to her? The newfound demands of training mages and possibly offering Rifters the same?

She isn't so obvious as to make away with a whole bottle of brandy, but she does keep it near at hand when she slumps in her chair. A new scar arced along her jaw from the fight shines pink where it's healed, skin under her eyes shadowed and bruised, the slope of her shoulders turned inward and exhausted. But she'll manage a thin smile and some good humor to any that approach.